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(No Model.)

B. W. M. HUGHES. PEDESTAL FOR RAILROAD CARS.

No. 408,029. Patented July 30, 1889.

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EDIVARD IVILLIAM MACKENZIE HUGHES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOX SOLID PRESSED STEEL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PEDESTAL FOR RAILROAD-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,029, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed April 2, 1889. Serial No. 305,654. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD WILLIAM MAO- KENZIE HUGHES, of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pedestals for Railroad-Cars, of which the following is a full, true, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improved ped- IO estal for railroadcars, made of pressed,

flanged, and preferably of corrugated steel.

My invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a front elevation; Fig.

I 5 2, an end elevation, partly in section; and Fig. 3, a section through Fig. 1 on the line so 00.

My invention consists, generally, of the pedestal proper A, which is a U-shaped plate of steel pressed into the form desired and 2o bent at the top, as shown in Fig. 2. In the upper part or angle of this plate a wooden beam L is generally arranged, firmly held therein by bolts G and H. The horns of the pedestal are flanged, as shown at M, for the reception of the wearingplates B, bolted therein for the reception of the journal-box. The bottom of this plate, which is bent inward, as shown, is provided with a flange E, for the reception of the head F, which has 0 bolt N for fastening the pedestal tie-bar D.

These flattened heads F are conveniently arranged to prevent the revolution of the bolt. The plate A proper is preferably provided with two corrugations C K, pressed therein in the process of manufacture, thereby providing increased rigidity and strength at the points desired.

NVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The pressed-steel pedestal for railroadcars, having plates A A approximately parallel and formed of the same piece of metal, and provided With outwardly-turned flanges for receiving the journal-box, substantially as described. 5

2. As a new article of manufacture, a pressedsteel corrugated pedestal for railroad-cars, substantially as described.

3. The pressed-steel pedestal shown, provided with flanges M M and Wearing-plates B B, all of pressed steel and fitted thereto, substantially as described.

4:. The corrugated pressed-steel pedestal A, provided with a corrugation K above the journal-box opening, and with a corrugation C extending across the top and down each horn' of the pedestal, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the pressed-steel pedestal A, having wearing-plate B attached 6o thereto, the said plate B having flange E, and the pedestal tie-bar D, bolted to the part B, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD WILLIAM MACKENZIE HUGHES.

lVitnesses:

IV. S. I-IARTWELL,

WM. Voss. 

